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02/27/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 3: Say right into its.
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Speaker 1: Time to wake up and talk about the teams you
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Speaker 1: love with the guys you love.
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Speaker 2: It's just about getting the group together.
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Speaker 2: we smell each other for a half.
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Speaker 1: Now gather around, because it's time to huddle up. West Leftlott.
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Speaker 1: We think we watched tick on one ready to learn. Well,
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Speaker 1: if it looks like man covered, I'll check.
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Speaker 2: I'll go short. Yet you got a cutting crack now,
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Speaker 2: cutting crack read ride eighteen bob on one ready cut
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Speaker 2: them in krap. You'll look at this play. What we're
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Speaker 2: trying to get is a seal here and a seal here,
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Speaker 2: and to try to run this play in the hour.
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Speaker 2: Let's go on, trad do what you're doing. O god, yeah,
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Speaker 2: and they can play be right all the way outside.
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Speaker 1: Why left fakes three ninety thick bag be in See
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Speaker 1: Park is not long enough.
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Speaker 2: For watching to be proud of a professional. It's a
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Speaker 2: great professional out damn playing this ball game like I
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Speaker 2: know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: With Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand sorry, shit, don't get scared.
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Speaker 4: Were ready?
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 2: Got yourself again?
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Speaker 3: I can not always say you.
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Speaker 5: Friday Edition, Rolling through the Huddle Drew billion Arman broadcasting
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Speaker 5: Live nine twenty Milwaukee, ten seventy Madison everywhere on the
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Speaker 5: you and there having their own little side discussions, well
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Speaker 5: that's the way it's supposed to work. Eight seven seven,
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Speaker 5: seven nine four one ninety seven three. If you want
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Speaker 5: to talk to us, and by extension, thousands of smart,
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Speaker 5: good looking listeners all over the place, we welcome you.
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Speaker 2: We would obviously.
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Speaker 5: Today's show dedicated to Bruce Freming, celebrating what a great
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Speaker 5: life he had baseball life. Died at eighty six yesterday
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Speaker 5: and one of the iconic umpires in baseball history, no
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Speaker 5: question about it.
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Speaker 2: Bruce a local treasure.
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Speaker 5: Treasure thinking about him and some of the laughs we've
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Speaker 5: had and the great stories. What a life well lived
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Speaker 5: for Bruce.
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Speaker 6: Did you ever call balls and strikes drew? As Mike
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Speaker 6: quidd asked us, who would be the better umpire, Arman
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Speaker 6: or Billy? Did you ever get bhind the dish?
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Speaker 3: I may have.
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Speaker 5: I think I might have done it from behind the mound,
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Speaker 5: because that's the way it was set up back in
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Speaker 5: the day. For sure, young kids baseball and stuff. But
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Speaker 5: briefly I was more of a basketball official. I did
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Speaker 5: a year at basketball with my buddy Andy and West Bend.
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Speaker 2: That's a good workout. Help me into it was a
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Speaker 2: good workout.
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Speaker 5: But then I soured on it because the coaches were jags,
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Speaker 5: yes parents, and it was sixth grade parochial school and
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Speaker 5: like good seventh and eighth brace kids these kids, because
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Speaker 5: all the kids, uh, all the good kids were on
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Speaker 5: the select teams of travel.
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Speaker 2: This was like these these kids. It was wrecked.
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Speaker 5: It was innermurals, wreck baskets, kids going. And then but
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Speaker 5: then these coaches all think that they're you know, they
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Speaker 5: bically think their friend McCaffrey on the sideline.
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Speaker 2: Right, how could you call that?
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Speaker 3: Call that?
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Speaker 2: And like, this is my dress. I did dress one
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Speaker 2: guy down BEF. This guy was getting on me about
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Speaker 2: my mechanics I was doing.
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Speaker 5: I was hungover, and when you're chopping, you're chopping like
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Speaker 5: the count for the five second stuff.
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Speaker 4: I was doing it with just my hand in front
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Speaker 4: of it. He's like, you got to make it more
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Speaker 4: visible so I could see it. I'm like, really, what
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Speaker 4: do you mean? Why get her up the floor?
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Speaker 2: What are we doing? I can see it? Why you
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Speaker 2: counted off? Yeah, because I wanted to know how close
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Speaker 2: he was to a you know, a violation, and you're
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Speaker 2: there to help the kids have fun, and that was
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Speaker 2: the thing. And I didn't really say anything because I
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Speaker 2: didn't really care.
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Speaker 5: And you know, it's just out there for the exercise
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Speaker 5: and hang out with my boy correct and whatever money
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Speaker 5: we made was not much box were making, but it
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Speaker 5: was Uh. At one point, I just I snapped on
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Speaker 5: this dude. I'm like, dude, you're up by thirty. Why
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Speaker 5: don't you back off the throttle. None of your kids
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Speaker 5: are having fun, Like, look at your kids, You're you're
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Speaker 5: grinding on your kids. You're up by thirty and None
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Speaker 5: of the kids look like they're having any fun.
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Speaker 2: That's what this is for.
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Speaker 5: None of these kids are even going to play in
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Speaker 5: high school. And you're out here like you're auditioning the
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Speaker 5: coach in the NBA. Yeah, how are you doing? Coach
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Speaker 5: k is not hiring an assistant? Yeah, what are you doing?
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Speaker 5: I want you to dial it down.
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Speaker 6: That sounds exactly like the reason why I ended my
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Speaker 6: umpiring time was over at the over at the baseball
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Speaker 6: complex where I played right giving back to the community
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Speaker 6: as a high schooler into college, doing some twenty dollars
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Speaker 6: a game Saturday tournaments.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Well, hungover as all.
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Speaker 6: Hell, and I was on firing a nine year old game,
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Speaker 6: and I definitely okay, did I call a strike that
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Speaker 6: may have been in the other batter's box.
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Speaker 2: Sure, we're trying to get this thing going here, you're
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Speaker 2: going here.
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Speaker 6: It's thirteen to one in the second inning and we
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Speaker 6: have had to walk eleven different players. All right, we
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Speaker 6: are going to get the bats going. Guy just comes
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Speaker 6: out of the dugout. I don't understand how you don't
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Speaker 6: care about this enough. What you could at least care,
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Speaker 6: I said, brother, you could at least chill out. It's
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Speaker 6: thirteen to one in the second inning.
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Speaker 2: And you said about all and it's eight thirty two
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Speaker 2: in the morning. Unbelievable.
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Speaker 6: I was already drenched in my own sweat from the
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Speaker 6: ninety four. That was right, So I think definitely arm
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Speaker 6: and drew out of all three. The thing is, you, guys,
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Speaker 6: that I've never been an umpire.
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Speaker 3: I don't think i'd be good simply because I'm too
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Speaker 3: easily persuaded. I think you can convince me I got
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Speaker 3: every probably call wrong. I'd need affirmation, like all strike,
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Speaker 3: I think, right, guys, well don't you think that was
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Speaker 3: outside there? And then like you know what, this guy
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Speaker 3: made a good point, and I, you know, I think
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Speaker 3: I'm way too easily persuaded. I'm not like stubborn enough.
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Speaker 3: I think that's my problem. So I don't know that
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Speaker 3: i'd be a good umpire in that sense. I'd probably
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Speaker 3: also forget something and then like worry about it and
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Speaker 3: then like.
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Speaker 5: My boy Andy and Jackson just texted the program Andy
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Speaker 5: and west Ben, I should see.
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Speaker 2: He said it's up to thirty five bucks a game.
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Speaker 5: Now, he's worked a couple of four gamers quadruple headers
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Speaker 5: on Saturday, morning.
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Speaker 2: Can't you get you sweat?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, my pal Lance Davis that I used to work
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Speaker 5: with over on the other side of the radio dial
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Speaker 5: is an official and he's actually he's worked his way
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Speaker 5: and he's a high school official and he is he's
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Speaker 5: been tabbed to work the girls state tournament.
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Speaker 2: That's all.
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Speaker 3: That's.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I have somebodies from my hometown of the Falls that
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Speaker 5: are part of a crew in football that got to
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Speaker 5: work at Camp Randle for the state tournament. That's like
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Speaker 5: good and you forget about that, and that is a
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Speaker 5: dying art and people aren't you know, don't want to
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Speaker 5: they don't want to sign up.
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Speaker 2: For the abuse.
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Speaker 6: No, And the tough thing is Drew that we just
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Speaker 6: talk about it like that because at some point you
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Speaker 6: do need good ones to be able to help the
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Speaker 6: game go and help these these kids play because there
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Speaker 6: is there's so many more kids playing. There's so many
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Speaker 6: more uh, you know, dollars on the line of parents
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Speaker 6: are spending a whole lot of money on it. But
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Speaker 6: like it's still at the end of the day, is
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Speaker 6: about what you asked that guy, Are any of these
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Speaker 6: kids having fun? And if it's not for people going
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Speaker 6: and signing up for the abuse, signing up to be ridiculed.
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Speaker 6: Like our friend Ryan and Mschigo, I know he's on
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Speaker 6: the talking text line of officiates US and basketball as well.
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Speaker 6: It's like, uh, you just you know that it's going
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Speaker 6: to happen, but uh, it's the thought in the ability
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Speaker 6: to let these kids play and develop that you listen,
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Speaker 6: We'll sign up for it. But let's chill out on
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Speaker 6: the guys a little bit. This begs a question for
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Speaker 6: your own. Can we want to throw this into ether
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Speaker 6: We don't. We haven't done pole questions in a while,
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Speaker 6: but if you win, to throw it a poll. What
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Speaker 6: sport in general? What are the what's the best officiated sport?
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Speaker 6: What's the worst officiated sport?
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Speaker 5: Because I've been watching some Big ten hoops and some
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Speaker 5: Badgers games and some of those, some of the calls
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Speaker 5: that are happening there are pretty rough.
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Speaker 2: Taking the most arrows, I think that's yeah.
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Speaker 5: And like hockey, there's the innate thing where they even
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Speaker 5: it up. If you guys, you guys work at and
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Speaker 5: when you do admirals games all the time, if the
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Speaker 5: penalties are three to er going to the third in
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Speaker 5: the first five minutes of the sort one, someone's getting
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Speaker 5: one or two.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to even it up the sheet a
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Speaker 2: little bit. I'll say this, I do not remember many times.
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Speaker 3: I think it's pretty rare when they like fans and
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Speaker 3: they get really on revs at that level, at least
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Speaker 3: in the HL, or at least in hockey in general.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I haven't been to as many NHL games, but
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Speaker 3: it doesn't like there's that much, you know, egregiousness in
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Speaker 3: the CALT even though even the Knights when there's a
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Speaker 3: lot of penalties, it doesn't seem like there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of you know, anger from fans or those obvious you know,
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Speaker 3: when the fans really get out a wrap about a
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Speaker 3: cut a basketball game and everyone can hear it. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't feel that way. I remember kind of a couple
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Speaker 3: of times. But they have a tough job with the fights.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're really putting yourself in harm's way when
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Speaker 3: you're breaking up so many fights and they have to
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Speaker 3: decide how long to let them fight and wanting to
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Speaker 3: jump on.
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Speaker 2: These times, they just let them go until they and
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Speaker 2: somebody goes down. Somebody goes down. Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 6: In the conversation again, maybe it's just because we haven't
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Speaker 6: watched the highest level in five months. I kind of
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Speaker 6: think baseball right like I just I do from the
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Speaker 6: standpoint of everything around the diamond. As many times as
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Speaker 6: there's a video review and the umpire goes and we
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Speaker 6: list plugs in the earpiece, there stands and then they
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Speaker 6: played the little arc and music and Dean Roscoe just
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Speaker 6: dominates there at American Family Field as we wait and
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Speaker 6: we wait, and then they give the answer. A lot
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Speaker 6: of the times it's confirmed right, like I just and
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Speaker 6: for Drew what we just talked about with Bruce, the
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Speaker 6: time on task they're together, they're calling games every single day.
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Speaker 6: It's one of the reasons why I still firmly believe
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Speaker 6: that the NFL officiating, which I think is better than
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Speaker 6: people give it credit for. I think it would be
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Speaker 6: better if they were full time. I think it'd be
9:16
Speaker 6: better if you didn't have to go work an office
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Speaker 6: job right away. Do I understand the financials might not
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Speaker 6: lend itself to it, sure, but I think the league making, however,
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Speaker 6: many billions of dollars, and it's champion just got put
9:27
Speaker 6: up for sale with a ten billion dollar valuation. You
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Speaker 6: can carve out a couple one hundred and fifty thousand
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Speaker 6: dollars jobs to make sure that the sport continues to
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Speaker 6: get better officiated.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would that would help a lot.
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Speaker 5: And it's you know, in this era, like we said
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Speaker 5: they can erase mistakes, it's not as totally can And
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Speaker 5: like even Angel Hernandez was bad, right, he was still
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Speaker 5: like at the plate probably over ninety percent or ninety
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Speaker 5: three percent, right, I mean very much.
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Speaker 6: Listen as the u as Arman talked about it in
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Speaker 6: the break during the NFLPA report cards. Not bad gretes,
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Speaker 6: all right, I was all I would could always be
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Speaker 6: happy with a ninety percent if I was Angel Nanda,
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Speaker 6: I was running.
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Speaker 2: That piece of paperback house. We'll get into it best
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Speaker 2: and worst officiated sports.
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Speaker 5: To even know who a lot of the guys are anymore,
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Speaker 5: we've lost that kind of a little bit there. They'll
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Speaker 5: be more anonymous because of the fact that we got
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Speaker 5: replay and football Zebras the old guys the only one
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Speaker 5: that lets me know the NFL.
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Speaker 3: Retiring, Yeah they are because because he's out maybe Buck
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Speaker 3: Norri's neck. I think we know him in the NBA,
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Speaker 3: like when it's Mark Davis time, when it's time for football.
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Speaker 3: Like the guys that had those and Scott Foster, the
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Speaker 3: guys that had those, It's almost like, yeah, almost like
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Speaker 3: the ones that you think do do a good job
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Speaker 3: aren't aren't really the stars quote unquote right because they
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Speaker 3: don't get the publicity, they don't get the quote unquote controversy.
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Speaker 3: But I don't know, I mean, it seemed like the
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Speaker 3: names were growing up were indelible, like you mentioned earlier,
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Speaker 3: Jess Cursey, Hugh Hollins, ed T Rush and you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe it's just like Davey's and here we go, it's
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Speaker 3: time time for the finals because these are the big names.
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Speaker 3: But there was a little bit of intrinsic trust there
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Speaker 3: with those guys. But if there's one thing fans, coaches, players,
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Speaker 3: everybody can unite on is they don't like refs. That's
11:13
Speaker 3: the one thing I feel like everyone unites on is
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Speaker 3: that let's just blame the refs. It's like blaming the
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Speaker 3: media and always works.
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Speaker 2: I used to say.
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Speaker 5: I used to say that the most powerful person in sports,
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Speaker 5: and the person who had the most direct impact on
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Speaker 5: a game on a non playing side, was the home
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Speaker 5: played umpire. Because, like we say, if it's a one
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Speaker 5: to one pitch. The difference between two to one and
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Speaker 5: one two is enrm massive. Yeah, right, And now in
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Speaker 5: the ABS system and stuff that they've lost little of
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Speaker 5: that power because you know, it's like okay, well it's
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Speaker 5: gonna get it overturned and they.
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Speaker 2: Don't have that, you know, the iron fist anymore.
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Speaker 6: I do, yeah, yes, and no, right, because it's only
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Speaker 6: three three challenges per team, right, So like I'm again
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Speaker 6: very excited to see how you have to break those up. Right,
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Speaker 6: Like if it is a two to zero pitch in
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Speaker 6: the middle of the third inning with one out, nobody on,
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Speaker 6: and you definitely think it's a ball and you think
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Speaker 6: that you should have a three zero count, but they
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Speaker 6: call it two to one.
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Speaker 2: You look over at the skip and he goes, don't
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Speaker 2: you dare trails? Yeah, don't right, Sorry, Budy, You're gonna
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Speaker 2: have to work with it.
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Speaker 6: I think that's gonna be an interesting part because I
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Speaker 6: don't think we might still see something.
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Speaker 2: Those are those are the things though. It's like the.
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Speaker 5: The butterfly effect in baseball, Like you think, oh, it's
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Speaker 5: two out, nobody on, and it's a six to nothing game,
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Speaker 5: and you kick a call and all of a sudden
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Speaker 5: it's an eight run rally, and it's like, oh, you know,
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Speaker 5: it's just it's just amazing how stuff like that works.
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Speaker 2: But I would say it can affect history though.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and those calls, and but the in the NFL,
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Speaker 5: like they always say you could call holding on every play,
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Speaker 5: every and then how many times did Michael Parsons get held?
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Speaker 5: And you're like, oh man, he never drew flags? Right,
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Speaker 5: and star players get different treatment. There's still dynamics at
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Speaker 5: work that are fascinating with fishing.
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Speaker 3: You do wonder if like maybe this also to Billy's point,
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Speaker 3: will this make umpires better?
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Speaker 2: Like the ABS is only like what three challenges? Right?
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Speaker 3: So the question is now that they're always being checked.
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Speaker 3: I've been checked now that they have the graphics, not
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Speaker 3: publicly score, yeah, no, the entire stadium, in the entire world.
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Speaker 3: We'll see when they get wrong now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: But I'm just saying they're like X accounts where you
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Speaker 5: can go see the guys right day, and like you,
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Speaker 5: they're they're more accountable.
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Speaker 2: Now than they ever were accountable now than ever before.
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Speaker 2: But I get what you're saying, Army.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think of Eric greg like the ninety
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Speaker 3: seven playoffs. That one that Marlin's Braves game is the
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Speaker 3: worst umpired strikes on the history of baseball. I wonder
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Speaker 3: if Abs was there, would have would have checked him
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Speaker 3: early or would it have just been I'm still calling
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Speaker 3: all these things strikes, and no.
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Speaker 6: Matter if you can run out. We saw it a
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Speaker 6: couple of days ago and again in spring training. It's
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Speaker 6: a week in the games, but old boy missed five
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Speaker 6: straight and you could tell like the sweat was dripping
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Speaker 6: from that brow like he was he was struggling because
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Speaker 6: you you are feeling more and more of the heat.
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Speaker 6: I don't know, are they are they going to throw
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Speaker 6: the graphic right on in the stadium, okay, because I
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Speaker 6: didn't know if that was only at home, like I've
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Speaker 6: always wondered it. In the new scoreboard off to the
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Speaker 6: right hand side, they gave you the pitch selection, the
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Speaker 6: pitch speed, didn't tell you if it was a ball
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Speaker 6: or a strike.
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Speaker 2: I didn't tell you where it would come in. I
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Speaker 2: always thought that was what that sort.
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Speaker 5: Complained about that to some people in the scoreboard operations
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Speaker 5: and stuff, like why don't you tell us whether it
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Speaker 5: was a ball or strike or foul or whatever so
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Speaker 5: you can tell anyway there's enough information.
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Speaker 2: I didn't like that one. It is what it is,
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Speaker 2: and then I appreciated that.
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Speaker 5: I felt scoreboard at major league games is getting to
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Speaker 5: be a little bit like the ticker and the crawl
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Speaker 5: on the draft, where it's just too much, right, It's
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Speaker 5: like too much.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of numbers. I need to know a guys,
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Speaker 2: you know, ops on weekdays and stuff too. I need it.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of numbers. There's I almost prefer it
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Speaker 2: a little cleaner.
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Speaker 6: I think it's interesting when they made the full switch
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Speaker 6: to we put the players ops next to their.
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Speaker 2: Change.
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Speaker 3: When the top us that was ops and not batting average,
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Speaker 3: you knew the culture of baseball finally changed. That's what
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Speaker 3: I always said, because my I had to explain to
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Speaker 3: my dad what OPS was every time.
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Speaker 2: All right, a lot of good text about umpiring.
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Speaker 3: You guys want to spend there, Justin and Jenny p
15:08
Speaker 3: and the shot says we need more officials badly. Professionally speaking,
15:11
Speaker 3: we need more officials that have good eye sight and
15:12
Speaker 3: thick skin. It's reel out there on Friday nights. That's
15:15
Speaker 3: part of the problem is though one like high school officials.
15:17
Speaker 6: He got jerks like me screaming at that one official
15:20
Speaker 6: on my twenty four that you got that picture of.
15:22
Speaker 3: You know what, You had a point on that one though,
15:23
Speaker 3: all right, Justin and Jacksonville. I used to ump the
15:25
Speaker 3: league and I was probably fourteen. The coach got so
15:27
Speaker 3: mad as he pulled his team off the field.
15:29
Speaker 2: These kids were eight years old.
15:30
Speaker 6: My god, oh my gosh, boy sitting on the sitting
15:34
Speaker 6: on the David's sunflower seeds.
15:36
Speaker 2: This is an abomination. We need to get out of here,
15:39
Speaker 2: crazy dark old. This is shame. This is shame.
15:42
Speaker 3: This is shame, pulling his kids off the field like
15:44
Speaker 3: they just want to play. All right, six o eight
15:46
Speaker 3: has a good point. I think I might be biased,
15:48
Speaker 3: but on a high school level, wrestling is one of
15:49
Speaker 3: the hardest sports officiate. On Saturday at the finals, four
15:52
Speaker 3: to ten matches are decided in the last thirty seconds
15:54
Speaker 3: by the ref on fifty to fifty calls, right, and
15:56
Speaker 3: you're calling for points and stuff like that. That very wrestling.
15:58
Speaker 3: That's a really good point. That is an important one.
16:01
Speaker 3: There's a lot of matches going on. I don't know
16:03
Speaker 3: how you can hear the whistles in those gyms, but
16:04
Speaker 3: there's like fifty five matches happened.
16:06
Speaker 6: Well, and those guys gotta get I mean they're in
16:09
Speaker 6: it right like I mean you you got to get
16:10
Speaker 6: down the floor. You got to know when the when
16:12
Speaker 6: the shoulders both touched. My one year of wrestling did
16:15
Speaker 6: have him men's respect for the official.
16:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then three three to one and uh says
16:20
Speaker 3: he's in Illinois. I think the three three one area code.
16:22
Speaker 3: Billy smybe be more confrontational than Angel Hernandez is an MLB.
16:26
Speaker 3: But see that would make it more entertaining. You know,
16:28
Speaker 3: you knew you'd get some action when Billy Schmid's behind
16:31
Speaker 3: the dish. You know, Oh, I'd be letting people have it. Yeah, yeah,
16:33
Speaker 3: you sure about that? You sure about that?
16:36
Speaker 5: I uh, going way back, I covered the Jeffrey Mayer
16:40
Speaker 5: game totally. Yeah, with that game with the Orioles and
16:46
Speaker 5: Yankees ninety five playoffs, I'm not I believe so. Yeah,
16:48
Speaker 5: it was the Jeter hit it into the right field
16:51
Speaker 5: and the kid reached over and took the ball from
16:53
Speaker 5: Tony Trusco, and Richie Garcia was the umpire in right
16:57
Speaker 5: field that night, and he missed the call. He didn't
16:59
Speaker 5: see it like he had he had to do a
17:00
Speaker 5: press conference after the game, and one of the things,
17:02
Speaker 5: it's New York fans, man, I'm telling you, there's so
17:05
Speaker 5: next level. The next night, like in the ramp up
17:08
Speaker 5: to the game, they announced the umpires and Richie Garcia
17:11
Speaker 5: got the biggest pop that you could possibly It was
17:15
Speaker 5: hilarious because it had been yes, they would have booed
17:19
Speaker 5: the hell out of him, but he got it. Was
17:20
Speaker 5: the biggest pop of the series. Probably was Richie Garcia
17:23
Speaker 5: being introduced before Game two. The outfield umpire is one
17:29
Speaker 5: of the gigs that come playoff time. I always do last,
17:32
Speaker 5: and you are really doing it. It's like vacation that's vacation,
17:37
Speaker 5: the spot that's not vacation. Watch NFL playoffs. The head
17:41
Speaker 5: referees that you're watching throughout the year are assigned to
17:44
Speaker 5: the sideline and they just immediately have to go talk
17:47
Speaker 5: to the to the coach and just get lasted the
17:51
Speaker 5: entire game. Land Clark got the assignment of being on
17:54
Speaker 5: the Packer's sideline. My man is the most emotionless cat
17:56
Speaker 5: of all time. He's the one that looks pissed off
17:58
Speaker 5: Drew every time he has to.
17:59
Speaker 2: Call up.
18:01
Speaker 6: All right, the offense number seventy five, figure it out,
18:05
Speaker 6: get your hands inside tenard penalty second down. He's just
18:09
Speaker 6: having it from both sides and he's just sitting there.
18:12
Speaker 6: No emotion, fellas, don't blow it, don't blow time.
18:14
Speaker 2: Pointly.
18:14
Speaker 4: Sorry, it's not my fault, not my fault. They're calling
18:16
Speaker 4: this play on the field. Sorry, We take your thoughts
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Speaker 5: The packers have slipped. How important are these grades? How
19:16
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19:31
Speaker 2: Not mad about it. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
19:34
Speaker 2: Rolling along.
19:35
Speaker 5: We've reached halftime of the Friday edition. We're close to
19:38
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19:41
Speaker 5: happy hours. Going to hit hard today when it's almost
19:43
Speaker 5: sixty degrees, it's going to be epic.
19:44
Speaker 4: Scott Dolphin from the country station down the hall joins us. Hello, Dolph,
19:47
Speaker 4: Drew and true Wisconsin fashion. At sixty degrees today and
19:50
Speaker 4: then thirty with one to three inches of snow that suck.
19:53
Speaker 2: Get out and enjoy it. Now, get it, get it
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Speaker 2: while you can get while the getting's good.
19:56
Speaker 4: I feel like some are just looking at Drew Olsen
19:58
Speaker 4: though right now, my god, we look at I don't
20:00
Speaker 4: believe it, right, Yeah, man, I tell you Bron's gottle.
20:03
Speaker 5: It's it's awesome being in being in the eighty five
20:06
Speaker 5: degrees and just soaking that up and thinking of what's
20:09
Speaker 5: to come.
20:09
Speaker 4: I got a buddy that goes to Portoviarta for almost
20:12
Speaker 4: a month and he's there now. And of course he
20:14
Speaker 4: was there on Sunday, he went out. Uh well, the
20:18
Speaker 4: next day they after the cartel stuff happened, they kept
20:20
Speaker 4: him in his hotel. But uh day after that he
20:23
Speaker 4: said that bars and restaurants seventy five percent were open,
20:26
Speaker 4: and then by the next day he was out at
20:27
Speaker 4: his favorite water tormal.
20:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything was back in Oral. Yeah, it was. It's good.
20:32
Speaker 5: It was a quick blip, scary for it was a
20:34
Speaker 5: little bit ay man. You know, I have some friends
20:36
Speaker 5: that were down there too, and I have a cousin
20:37
Speaker 5: of Winter's down there. So yeah, he's been doing that
20:40
Speaker 5: for years.
20:40
Speaker 4: Well and you've you've said it many times, and my
20:43
Speaker 4: buddy Russ says that it's not They're not going to
20:45
Speaker 4: stop going back down.
20:46
Speaker 2: They love that city.
20:47
Speaker 5: My cousin asked me, he goes, would you come back here?
20:49
Speaker 5: I'm like, absolutely, yeah, I love it there.
20:50
Speaker 2: It's great. It's safer there than I do in parts
20:52
Speaker 2: of Milwater, right, buddy.
20:54
Speaker 3: Of mine is their whole family's writing in Kancun right now. Yeah,
20:57
Speaker 3: they're a nice resort, but they're having a great time
20:59
Speaker 3: right now.
20:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, my daughter was in Cancun until this past Wednesday,
21:03
Speaker 4: and they obviously saw no evidence of anything going on
21:06
Speaker 4: where they were.
21:07
Speaker 2: No, it's yeah, it's worth it. It was just a blip,
21:11
Speaker 2: momentary blip, right. Yeah.
21:13
Speaker 5: All right, So Dolph, we're talking about grades because the
21:16
Speaker 5: NFLPA grades had been leaked. They weren't supposed to because
21:19
Speaker 5: they were supposed.
21:19
Speaker 2: To keep this under the lid. But I think it
21:21
Speaker 2: was kil Taylor.
21:22
Speaker 6: Got him, Well, listen, when you have how many players
21:25
Speaker 6: in the NFL and they were still going to be
21:27
Speaker 6: released to all of the players and their agents, it
21:30
Speaker 6: was going to pop open.
21:31
Speaker 2: There's nothing you can do.
21:32
Speaker 6: No, And thank god for the arbitrator that ruled it
21:35
Speaker 6: this way, where he said, oh yeah, NFL, sure you
21:37
Speaker 6: can parade that you guys won this. By the way,
21:39
Speaker 6: they're still going to do it and we're all still
21:40
Speaker 6: going to know about it. So if you don't like it,
21:43
Speaker 6: get better.
21:44
Speaker 4: NFLPA said, Hey, don't blame us. We took it down
21:46
Speaker 4: from our publications, but you know, you can't stop players
21:48
Speaker 4: from talking.
21:49
Speaker 6: So the Packers took a little step back. Yeah, overall
21:52
Speaker 6: went from seven to twenty one. Matt Lafleur dropped like
21:55
Speaker 6: a full letter grade in terms of the head coach rating.
21:58
Speaker 6: One of the biggest drops for the Packers was their
22:01
Speaker 6: treatment of families, went to a C plus for their
22:05
Speaker 6: lack of game day childcare. That seems to me, I mean,
22:09
Speaker 6: it feels like an easy fix. The Packers are in
22:11
Speaker 6: the midst of renovating their training room, which took a big,
22:15
Speaker 6: massive hit down which I think was one of the
22:17
Speaker 6: worst in the league in terms of the grades that
22:20
Speaker 6: they had, So there were some that were knocked significantly.
22:25
Speaker 6: Last year their locker room was out of date and
22:29
Speaker 6: was and went because they redid it. So for the
22:34
Speaker 6: interesting part is the Packers are one of the only teams,
22:37
Speaker 6: the only team in the sport where they can take
22:39
Speaker 6: the information and then actually put their resources into it
22:42
Speaker 6: if they want, because it's only their money, right, it's
22:45
Speaker 6: the it's the operations money. You don't have to go
22:47
Speaker 6: and ask the Hunt family if we can go renovate
22:51
Speaker 6: a locker room like before the Kansas City Chiefs waiting
22:53
Speaker 6: for it.
22:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw the Steelers finish dead last, and ironically
22:57
Speaker 4: the Dolphins, which are kind of a dumpster fire right now,
22:59
Speaker 4: where at the top for the third straight.
23:01
Speaker 2: Year year number one team.
23:03
Speaker 3: It's just hard to understand that how could a team
23:06
Speaker 3: well be that consistent but bad in the field. That's
23:10
Speaker 3: Vegas was I think sixth overall, right, sunshine, and you
23:14
Speaker 3: tell me one year the Packers went from seventh to
23:16
Speaker 3: twenty first, I'm very skeptical.
23:18
Speaker 5: Interestingly, the team travel, the Packers went from an A
23:22
Speaker 5: minus to a B minus. That's one of the things
23:25
Speaker 5: that is one of the top things that players will
23:27
Speaker 5: complain about. And what is it the box twelve teams
23:31
Speaker 5: graded out higher than a B minus, but the Packers fell.
23:34
Speaker 5: But this is like, well, it's road, hotels, flights, and
23:37
Speaker 5: that could be like, well, our charter got the late.
23:40
Speaker 2: You know, remember when the Packers had that plane thing.
23:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, players had to it got late going to Arizona,
23:45
Speaker 5: Arizona and was finishing dinner and they were still like
23:49
Speaker 5: on the ground.
23:50
Speaker 2: In Green Bay. Well, yeah, but that's not the player.
23:52
Speaker 2: Is that the teams?
23:53
Speaker 3: I know?
23:53
Speaker 6: But that when you're grading. It's like spot you answer,
23:57
Speaker 6: you answer. How was your team travel this year? We
24:00
Speaker 6: kind of blue. We had three times where our flight
24:02
Speaker 6: got de laiter. Since then, anyone's fault. Don't take two planes.
24:05
Speaker 6: The Brewers take two planes. Some teams doors. I'm just
24:07
Speaker 6: making I'm sorry the Packers.
24:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you may we played this year. We
24:12
Speaker 5: had to go to a city that we only go
24:13
Speaker 5: and I hate the hotel there. Right, So it's like
24:16
Speaker 5: that's you know, the Packers have routinely been graded down
24:21
Speaker 5: for family accommodations, which is stunning to me because it's
24:23
Speaker 5: such like a family based organization.
24:25
Speaker 2: A babysitter and give the kids a player. That's the
24:28
Speaker 2: easiest thing. Every day.
24:31
Speaker 3: One of the rooms, you put one of those mats down.
24:33
Speaker 3: You got miss Rachel on TV. Of all these different
24:35
Speaker 3: listen Doug toys, it's not hard. You get three or
24:37
Speaker 3: four very qualified nannies there. You know it was childcare
24:41
Speaker 3: coordinators to be there. That's an easy one. Yeah, right,
24:44
Speaker 3: I know one that's that's available.
24:46
Speaker 2: There you go. If you miss a guy, listen outside.
24:51
Speaker 2: My wife's here under three. She knows what she's doing.
24:54
Speaker 2: She's a professional for fifteen years.
24:56
Speaker 4: You have Miss Rachel on TV. Uh no, actually, don't
24:58
Speaker 4: have Miss Rachel on TV.
24:59
Speaker 6: Army not just throwing it for a screen time, making
25:02
Speaker 6: them you know, how you get your treatment to go
25:04
Speaker 6: from C plus to C minus. That's just throw them
25:06
Speaker 6: in front of a television. How about we use some phonics.
25:08
Speaker 6: How about we phonetically work out ABC's we start counting
25:12
Speaker 6: a little bit.
25:13
Speaker 3: It raised me. Fine, Fine, do sets street. They're not
25:17
Speaker 3: full time. They're not full time. I'm just saying these
25:19
Speaker 3: are just during the game, so you're not responsible for
25:21
Speaker 3: their entires. But fine, get at the toys.
25:24
Speaker 2: I don't care.
25:25
Speaker 5: It's not that hard have eight home games a year
25:27
Speaker 5: or ten, like you know, and how hard is that
25:30
Speaker 5: the Brewers have eighty one and they have a family room.
25:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's easy wins there.
25:37
Speaker 4: The travel thing just baffles me though, if they're they're
25:39
Speaker 4: flagging them because they were delayed or yeah.
25:41
Speaker 2: And then the other thing that Packers got marked down
25:43
Speaker 2: on is nutrition.
25:45
Speaker 5: Now I almost old to remember, like they used to
25:47
Speaker 5: live in the dorm at Saint Norbert and they would
25:49
Speaker 5: have the meals there and like you know, and now
25:53
Speaker 5: basically they feed them. They're at the complex all day
25:55
Speaker 5: and they feed them two or three meals. Baseball nutrition
25:57
Speaker 5: is gone. It went from crazy after games they used
26:00
Speaker 5: to put out like some chips and maybe some sandwich.
26:02
Speaker 5: Is a deli trainer tray right now it's like fully
26:05
Speaker 5: catered healthy the Bucks. The guys have customized protein shakes
26:10
Speaker 5: waiting for them after practice with your to your DNA
26:13
Speaker 5: and your metabolism.
26:14
Speaker 4: They were a last center right across the street too. Whatever, Yeah,
26:17
Speaker 4: it comes to training, Uh is it? Is it when
26:21
Speaker 4: it comes to the training table? Is it like a
26:22
Speaker 4: trip trip Advisor bad review because they went to an
26:26
Speaker 4: all inclusive and the buffet had the same items every day.
26:28
Speaker 4: I would love to see the specific that my comments
26:31
Speaker 4: that the packers are saying.
26:32
Speaker 2: Is it that like we eat unhealthy food and you're
26:34
Speaker 2: hurting my career? Or is it like the waffles a
26:36
Speaker 2: little bit mush.
26:37
Speaker 4: Or you tempt me to options because I ate three
26:40
Speaker 4: brats and four racks of ribs instead of going for
26:43
Speaker 4: the salad.
26:43
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this.
26:44
Speaker 3: They get a BEE for nutrition dietician and a B
26:46
Speaker 3: plus for food and dining and they dropped.
26:48
Speaker 2: I mean those are decent, great, that's true in my opinion.
26:51
Speaker 2: All Why did it drop what changed from last year?
26:53
Speaker 2: The cook's different.
26:54
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, they're giving them dunk a Ruse
26:56
Speaker 3: for lunch well and then kool Aid cool bursts, And
26:58
Speaker 3: I think this one is is a little bit more
27:01
Speaker 3: from the standard of living that you're accustomed to and
27:04
Speaker 3: you're used to because these dudes are also for the
27:06
Speaker 3: majority of the time coming from the top flight Division
27:09
Speaker 3: one big ten sec acc programs were outside of pitt
27:14
Speaker 3: because you know, they share the facility with the Steelers,
27:16
Speaker 3: and apparently they got like five weight benches or five bathrooms.
27:20
Speaker 2: You uh, you you come.
27:22
Speaker 6: These guys are eating like carved steak every single night
27:24
Speaker 6: if you roll from Penn State or something. When you
27:27
Speaker 6: are getting surf and turf three nights a week while
27:30
Speaker 6: you're during training camp at a Division one level where
27:33
Speaker 6: that's one of the separators before money in the NIL era,
27:36
Speaker 6: the only way you got the best players was Hey,
27:38
Speaker 6: this is what we offer better than everybody else.
27:41
Speaker 5: We have a rap studio, a barber shop, and a
27:44
Speaker 5: lazy River in our locker room. And then you get
27:46
Speaker 5: to the pros and it's like, wait, where's all the
27:48
Speaker 5: where's all the toys your house?
27:50
Speaker 2: We're here to work now, who was at LSU that
27:52
Speaker 2: had the slide? They went in the upper part to
27:54
Speaker 2: the bottom part.
27:56
Speaker 5: The shocking thing to me about the packers grades though,
27:59
Speaker 5: and if there's place to look for him, was uh
28:01
Speaker 5: Steno offensive coner got a C and, as pointed out
28:05
Speaker 5: by many, one of eight offensive coordinators to get a
28:08
Speaker 5: C grade or worse in the NFL.
28:10
Speaker 2: The other seven were all fired. The only one that
28:12
Speaker 2: still has a job. That's that's an interesting one.
28:15
Speaker 6: Here's the one for you, and that maybe is the
28:16
Speaker 6: one that ties itself more to mattla Floor right, like
28:19
Speaker 6: and how much that that one came to. But also
28:22
Speaker 6: I saw a lot of people starting to see and maybe.
28:25
Speaker 2: It's just just because you like it. I mean, it's
28:27
Speaker 2: a good thing Rich Pisaci to get a B plus. Yeah,
28:30
Speaker 2: Rich Pisachi gotta be that's amazing.
28:31
Speaker 4: From the from the players and Gurgakost at the combine
28:35
Speaker 4: this week said they were kind of shocked and surprised
28:37
Speaker 4: when he handed in that resignation. I am shocked and
28:40
Speaker 4: surprised that they were shocked and surprised that he handed
28:42
Speaker 4: in that resignation at sixty five years old.
28:45
Speaker 2: Apparently, though he's not done. He wants to know.
28:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, the way he said it is like I'm not retiring.
28:50
Speaker 6: I'm going to coach again, just not for you, right,
28:53
Speaker 6: And I think that is the That might be the
28:55
Speaker 6: slat where there was a thought of whoa, okay, that's
28:59
Speaker 6: expect all right.
29:00
Speaker 5: So this is funny because when Billy and I were
29:02
Speaker 5: talking about this off their we were joking because you know,
29:04
Speaker 5: Arman is mister straight a's and like Armony, Billy and
29:07
Speaker 5: I would celebrate a B minus, whereas Arma probably mad.
29:10
Speaker 2: You know, Oh yeah, I'm with you guys.
29:12
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, I slept through high school and
29:14
Speaker 4: barely got through junior college.
29:16
Speaker 6: Pretty much smacks right about the French mom eighty two.
29:22
Speaker 2: Come on, I got the team ownership an.
29:25
Speaker 5: I had a speaking gig. I had to speak to
29:27
Speaker 5: some student. I don't even remember it was. I think
29:29
Speaker 5: it might have been New Berlin. I had to do
29:30
Speaker 5: a speaking gig, like years reminding me I had New
29:32
Speaker 5: Berlin and uh it was it was, I can't remember.
29:37
Speaker 5: I was leaving, Yeah, it was. It was the day
29:40
Speaker 5: that I had resigned from the newspaper. I had given
29:42
Speaker 5: my two weeks notice of the newspaper. I was leaving
29:44
Speaker 5: the paper to go to and I had this gigbooked
29:46
Speaker 5: and I probably should have backed out of it. But
29:52
Speaker 5: it's me and Jack Harbaugh were speakers on this panel.
29:57
Speaker 5: And I think I stunned Jack because I told I
30:00
Speaker 5: told these kids, it's probably like one hundred kids or something.
30:02
Speaker 2: And I told him, you know, you guys are you're.
30:05
Speaker 5: Studying the ideas to learn and I know a lot
30:07
Speaker 5: of you obsessed with getting grades. And I'm here to
30:09
Speaker 5: tell you, like, grades aren't that important, right, especially in
30:12
Speaker 5: my industry and journalism.
30:14
Speaker 2: It's so true.
30:15
Speaker 5: I worked there was there was a woman I worked
30:17
Speaker 5: with at one point who had a Harvard degree and
30:20
Speaker 5: everybody thought, oh, she went to Harvard. She went to Harvard.
30:22
Speaker 5: And one of the city eators told me, yeah, she
30:24
Speaker 5: couldn't find Third Street if she was standing on fourth
30:26
Speaker 5: good job, the Harvard degree, What does that mean.
30:29
Speaker 4: I can't send her anywhere? Cahit, I can't find anything out.
30:32
Speaker 4: She can't you know, smart, but she's not Milwaukee Street,
30:34
Speaker 4: not a good reporter. And so I said that, and
30:37
Speaker 4: Harbor was like he was losing it, Like he's like, mister,
30:39
Speaker 4: go get you a Yeah, He's like he.
30:41
Speaker 5: Did not like my message, and he countered he got
30:44
Speaker 5: the counterpoint of my message to pump the kids up.
30:46
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, just learn and and I
30:49
Speaker 5: told him follow your passion, Like if you want to
30:51
Speaker 5: be a writer, write about stuff you like, right, because
30:54
Speaker 5: if you're into whatever it was music, Yeah, like write
30:57
Speaker 5: about stuff you like it.
30:58
Speaker 2: But apply that.
31:00
Speaker 5: And if you have free reign, if the teacher tells
31:02
Speaker 5: you right something right about something that you're interested in.
31:04
Speaker 5: And then I was, you know, I given him my
31:06
Speaker 5: usual speel about and that's trying to b s the teachers.
31:09
Speaker 5: And you know, never more true than now in the
31:11
Speaker 5: world we live in. I mean, if I guess if
31:13
Speaker 5: you're going into tech, you you probably still need the degree.
31:16
Speaker 2: But for the most part, I.
31:17
Speaker 4: Mean, you know, kids want to be influencers, and you know,
31:19
Speaker 4: if you do stuff, well, that's the thing like in
31:21
Speaker 4: your job interview, nobody asks your GPA.
31:24
Speaker 2: No, especially not in this industry. But working right now now,
31:27
Speaker 2: maybe you don't find it somewhere in high school.
31:29
Speaker 5: Now it's a little different because you know, in our day,
31:32
Speaker 5: if you fogged the mirror, you got into school, you
31:33
Speaker 5: got to you can get into Madison and anywhere. But
31:36
Speaker 5: now it's a little bit more competitive that way, so
31:37
Speaker 5: it might be more important. But this was, you know,
31:39
Speaker 5: years ago, and I was again, I just left a job.
31:42
Speaker 5: I was a little bit foggy, and I just told him,
31:44
Speaker 5: don't go to class.
31:45
Speaker 3: Kids.
31:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, aren't that important. You know, it's like,
31:49
Speaker 2: just do your best. And I want to get to
31:51
Speaker 2: like a Cauldro grad school, like you have to qualify
31:53
Speaker 2: for those things. I get it.
31:54
Speaker 3: But like I said during the break, no one at
31:56
Speaker 3: any job interview or any sort of you know, judgment
32:00
Speaker 3: of your job, at least here like in this business
32:02
Speaker 3: ever sits there and says, what do you get a
32:04
Speaker 3: B in theology?
32:05
Speaker 2: You can urge again A then I'm gonna listen to
32:07
Speaker 2: you more, like you know what I mean.
32:09
Speaker 5: That's just not even now, especially when kids are getting
32:11
Speaker 5: everything off a chat GPT oh.
32:12
Speaker 2: They can't trust anything.
32:14
Speaker 4: That's that's a scary problem that we're going into and
32:16
Speaker 4: it's only going to get more confusing in the future.
32:18
Speaker 4: I'm the only uneducated one in my family. My wife
32:21
Speaker 4: graduated from Marquette, and my daughter graduated from Marquette, and
32:24
Speaker 4: my son graduate from Whitewater. They're all wildly successful right now,
32:28
Speaker 4: I still they all look up to me though.
32:30
Speaker 2: It's still the smartest guy in the house. I was
32:31
Speaker 2: gonna say no with no degree unless you count an
32:36
Speaker 2: associates degree for juco.
32:38
Speaker 6: Hey man, my dad always would would threaten that after
32:40
Speaker 6: we'd start making jokes.
32:41
Speaker 2: Butot we go. Hey, I can go bust out the
32:43
Speaker 2: degrees if I have to, just let me, just let me.
32:47
Speaker 2: I'll bring on.
32:47
Speaker 6: They're up they're upstairs in the closet. But I can
32:49
Speaker 6: break it out. If you think I'm really that studidah.
32:52
Speaker 3: I love that.
32:53
Speaker 5: That's so true. So these grades, like will they lead
32:56
Speaker 5: to changes? Like how hard the Packers got downgraded on
32:58
Speaker 5: that before?
32:59
Speaker 1: Get a baby.
33:02
Speaker 3: Game.
33:02
Speaker 2: That's an easy fix to meet.
33:04
Speaker 6: These are all kind of easy fixes. Now the head
33:05
Speaker 6: coachman might not be like that. That's a different one.
33:07
Speaker 2: That that's it. That's an interesting spot to be in.
33:11
Speaker 2: But like the at least you still.
33:14
Speaker 6: My biggest thing is I'm just glad that they're still
33:15
Speaker 6: out right because it was the one way that teams
33:18
Speaker 6: and players could hold teams accountable as to what their
33:21
Speaker 6: practices were. And there's only one way for ownerships to
33:26
Speaker 6: get better by getting called out publicly and frankly.
33:29
Speaker 2: Shamed about it. I do look forward to this list
33:30
Speaker 2: every year. Is it paying you?
33:32
Speaker 4: Packer fans at the Vikings finished seconds?
33:35
Speaker 2: They always are right at the for them for a year.
33:39
Speaker 2: She raved about it.
33:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd rather win in the field, though, I don't
33:42
Speaker 3: think Dolphins fans are happy to just that they're number
33:44
Speaker 3: one again this They want to win games, but let's
33:47
Speaker 3: be honest, fans don't really care about that. They care
33:49
Speaker 3: about winning games and winning Super Bowls, right right.
33:52
Speaker 6: I mean, like you say, went fourteen games last year
33:53
Speaker 6: two years ago, but I mean and again, so they've
33:56
Speaker 6: had those years where they've been better. But you want
33:58
Speaker 6: to talk about like the nutrition, and they have what
34:01
Speaker 6: one of the biggest dining halls in that new space
34:03
Speaker 6: ever maybe created in like four or five different versions
34:07
Speaker 6: and cuisines and.
34:08
Speaker 2: Things like that, del royd.
34:09
Speaker 5: It was a big deal that when Reggie White arrived,
34:11
Speaker 5: they started upgrade and they started to bring in like
34:13
Speaker 5: I think, mister Perkins, they started to bring soul food
34:15
Speaker 5: in a couple of times a week for the for the.
34:17
Speaker 2: Players, and that was a barber. Are you telling me
34:20
Speaker 2: there wasn't a lot of soul food in Green Bay? Wisconsin.
34:23
Speaker 6: I think there is today. Yeah, not unless you go
34:26
Speaker 6: and ask Denny's and maybe they'll maybe they'll craft.
34:28
Speaker 4: If you guys had to give him a grade for
34:30
Speaker 4: press box food, would it be okay?
34:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lambo, it's one of the best.
34:34
Speaker 6: Ross Tucker always says half a ton of rocks, ye,
34:38
Speaker 6: And Darrenravell puts it out there too, and uh.
34:41
Speaker 5: Pour one out for the sight of Armin's engagement. The
34:44
Speaker 5: Bradley Center, it's over had the most incredible catering that
34:48
Speaker 5: that run from eighty eight to like two thousand maybe
34:51
Speaker 5: or even like later when.
34:52
Speaker 2: Jim checking everybody in right at the table. That's why
34:55
Speaker 2: I said, people don't appreciate the present. And we were great.
34:59
Speaker 5: We were treating when that building opened. I was covering
35:01
Speaker 5: the admirals and I covered I was talking to somebody
35:03
Speaker 5: the other day. I covered the first event. I was
35:04
Speaker 5: telling Denis Crouse, I covered the first event there, the
35:07
Speaker 5: black cover first at black Hawks and Edmonton.
35:10
Speaker 2: They thought Gretzky was gonna be everybody.
35:11
Speaker 5: I got traded in the summer, so black Hawks Edmonton
35:13
Speaker 5: was the first event of the brother Center and the
35:15
Speaker 5: catering stuff, and I was covering. I would cover the Admirals.
35:18
Speaker 5: I was covering the wave and I was like backing up,
35:20
Speaker 5: doing like box side as a single guy. I didn't
35:24
Speaker 5: spend any money on groceries. I haven't washed that, and
35:27
Speaker 5: I wouldn't eat all day and I'd go crush.
35:29
Speaker 2: That before we would.
35:30
Speaker 4: The catering be the same at what now sits on
35:32
Speaker 4: the side of the Bradley Center, which is the brand
35:34
Speaker 4: new theater which opens to night.
35:35
Speaker 2: By the way.
35:37
Speaker 4: In Life, Rainbow Kitten Surprise opens that building tonight. They
35:41
Speaker 4: had media day the other day. I didn't go, but
35:42
Speaker 4: the pictures look stunning, looks amazing. Yeah, I bet the
35:45
Speaker 4: catering's pretty good as well.
35:46
Speaker 5: Catering's gonna be back backstage, but it's not gonna be
35:48
Speaker 5: as good as like the paps in the Riverside. They're
35:50
Speaker 5: known for their hospitality. They got baristas back there and
35:53
Speaker 5: pastry ships. Yeah yeah, paps Riverside Turner. They really spoil people.
35:57
Speaker 6: But the food, I said, absolutely, and a stylist with
36:01
Speaker 6: that Bradley Center media roun if I serve got rid.
36:04
Speaker 5: Of them, they give you a voucher, you'll get something
36:06
Speaker 5: in concessions get you. That's what the brewers do. During
36:09
Speaker 5: playoff stuff and the brewers like and the bre Center
36:12
Speaker 5: was always free. But then yeah, packers are free and
36:17
Speaker 5: you got to pay.
36:17
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and you will.
36:19
Speaker 6: You will get told that and and you will get caught,
36:22
Speaker 6: but you do get a buffer. I still remember when
36:24
Speaker 6: I was an intern and I got caught the first
36:26
Speaker 6: day and.
36:27
Speaker 2: You got paid for that. Honey, don't worry about it.
36:32
Speaker 2: We'll let you go. This time, it wasn't. You're all
36:38
Speaker 2: just sitting there wet hairs.
36:40
Speaker 6: Man, I'm so sorry. Yeah, but the ice cream used
36:47
Speaker 6: to be free. I used to get It's a huge park,
36:51
Speaker 6: I will, I will say, pulled up a chair.
36:53
Speaker 5: Someday we have to call hard Recourt because there was
36:55
Speaker 5: they were experimenting with food. They had a chef at
36:57
Speaker 5: at early days of Miller Park and they was it
37:00
Speaker 5: was unhappy and unappetizing and people were complaining. And then
37:03
Speaker 5: it became the killer was the the entree one night
37:07
Speaker 5: was ham Hocks. Oh wow, And it's like ham Hocks
37:12
Speaker 5: and Hardercourt. We called it the Hamhock Rebellion. Courts like
37:15
Speaker 5: how hard it is it to have a piece of
37:16
Speaker 5: flipping chicken? Like I go to any bank when I
37:19
Speaker 5: go anywhere who have some hamhocks. So there was that
37:23
Speaker 5: was the final star. He complained about it, and then
37:25
Speaker 5: like the food.
37:25
Speaker 2: Got upgraded after throw back to the Beverly hill Billies.
37:29
Speaker 3: There was a there was a one time Marquette for
37:31
Speaker 3: their pregame had but I think a Chinese buffet and
37:34
Speaker 3: it wasn't. There was like a running joke that one time,
37:36
Speaker 3: the oh, this isn't as bad as the time that
37:38
Speaker 3: we had Chinese before the Marquette game. You know, not
37:40
Speaker 3: that that only Chinese cuisine, but I can't imagine it's
37:43
Speaker 3: it's it's the best thing to have on a buffet
37:45
Speaker 3: in that situation.
37:46
Speaker 2: I gotta go to a new China buffet again. Those
37:48
Speaker 2: are the best man back in the day. But in
37:50
Speaker 2: college we all went all we crushed that stuff. Buffets
37:53
Speaker 2: and salad bars. I'd like to bring them both back.
37:55
Speaker 4: Well, it's why I'm going to the old salad bar.
37:57
Speaker 4: Man a good supper club with the salad bar. We
37:59
Speaker 4: talked about all inclusive resorts. They still have a pretty
38:02
Speaker 4: nice salad bar.
38:03
Speaker 2: You can know. Great, yeah, yes, that is a great.
38:06
Speaker 3: Yeah.
38:06
Speaker 2: I missed those days. Vegas. Vegas still has going. I'm
38:09
Speaker 2: going they got a couple, but they're not as good
38:12
Speaker 2: as it used to be.
38:13
Speaker 3: There's only a couple that are good left, but you
38:15
Speaker 3: can still find they gotta go to the Palm.
38:16
Speaker 2: I'm a big bar fan in general. Salad bar, potato bar,
38:20
Speaker 2: one of the barn corn bari bar. Yeah, they're all great,
38:26
Speaker 2: tiky bar.
38:26
Speaker 4: Bar, Yeah, back bar, Doph, what's on tap for you
38:30
Speaker 4: this weekend? Any exciting plans going back to Iowa and nothing.
38:33
Speaker 4: We were gonna go see Steve Martin and Martin Short tonight,
38:35
Speaker 4: but tragically they got canceled. So uh so, really pretty
38:38
Speaker 4: empty weekend watching the college hoops just like Billy.
38:41
Speaker 2: Damn right, I'm I can't wait for all of them.
38:43
Speaker 2: You know those mid major attorneys are starting right now.
38:46
Speaker 2: That's right, arm tat on the one, doll, don't don't
38:50
Speaker 2: you worry. One's got to take something.
38:52
Speaker 3: The mag Tournament is going to be a very interesting
38:54
Speaker 3: thing because this could be one of the This could
38:57
Speaker 3: be a battle for the soul of college basketball. What
38:59
Speaker 3: they're gonna do with Miami point something that people are
39:02
Speaker 3: talking about understandably.
39:05
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